GTA is cartoon violence in extreme and I would be genuinely concerned if anyone saw any unironic appeal in the stripclub.

Apart from the one torture mission in GTAV which was obviously included for the sake of controversy I don't think there is any particularly bad portrayal of violence. GTA is probably a lot better than most AAA action games in all honesty

Still not bought this myself, which makes it the only GTA game I've not owned. Not entirely sure why I've never got round to this one, it's still on my to-do list but there's always something else higher up!

I have the GTA games but I've never enjoyed playing them "properly". I find the missions to be tedious and frustrating; I'd rather just wander around, drive cars up hills and play music. Which I do. I spent a few hours just driving along the seafront playing Billie Jean in Vice City on my Xbox .

I recently bought GTA V - got a good deal (£23.50) on Greenman Gaming for the PC 'Megalodon Edition' (comes with an $8,000,000 Shark Card). It's a Rockstar Social Club version, not Steam. All installed and registered fine, no issues at all. Began playing GTA V Online. Noticed I had $8,000,000 to spend in-game.

Five minutes later I got notification that not only had I just been 'paid' $500,000 for 'security services' (remember, I had only just started playing this game), but I then started receiving a huge cash transaction which continued for about five minutes. When it had stopped I checked my bank balance - £42,500,000!

I have no idea how this happened - I have no cheats, no trainers, no mods, etc installed - just the vanilla game as it was installed by the official Rockstar launcher. I'm pretty sure I was the very fortunate beneficiary of a 'cash drop' by a hacker - apparently the game is riddled with them (and I later spotted in the live chat people asking for cash drops). I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

I went out and immediately bought a $1,000,000 luxury penthouse apartment, two hi-end sports cars and the biggest luxury yacht available ($8,000,000 including helicopter). Then I saved my game.

$32million left in the bank. THUG LIFE!

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Cal wrote:...I went out and immediately bought a $1,000,000 luxury penthouse apartment, two hi-end sports cars and the biggest luxury yacht available ($8,000,000 including helicopter)...

Cal, based on your videogame purchasing, I'm wondering if this could be a case of art reflecting real life .

I can't figure out how I got the ca$h, but however it happened it hasn't stopped me from playing online (I heard Rockstar are good at swatting cheats). I logged back in this morning online and everything was good. Cash was safe, gamesave was safe and Rockstar hadn't locked me out of online play. Feels like I just won the GTA V lottery!

BTW, I play the game pretty much the same as you - not interested in the missions at all. I love the game world - one of the best open worlds in all of gaming imo. Now that I'm a GTA V $multimillionaire I can pretty much do anything in Los Santos. If it was a random online hacker feeling generous I count myself very lucky.

The console versions still suffer, but I believe the PC version is much worse for hacked online. I've put 300+ hours in to gtao between PS3 and PS4, mostly on PS3. On PS4 I've never seen any issues, and on PS3 I probably saw half a dozen players with hacked levels, and only once did I see stuff being changed in game (I had a traffic cone placed on my head, as did everyone else playing)

I think Rockstar expect you to report whoever did and not to spend it.

In the real world inhabited by humans I think most people just change server and buy a Bugatti and a yacht.

Realistically I dont think you can expect a ban unless you explicitly ask the hacker to give you money, being as R* have the chat logs. I have seen garage wipes and stuff for recipients if they get an obscene haul but even that is rare.